While much research work has been devoted to analysis and prediction of individuals’ behavior in social networks, very few studies about the analysis of business networks are conducted. Empowered by recent research on automated mining of business networks, this paper illustrates the design of a novel business network-based model called Energy Cascading Model (ECM) for the analysis and predictio...

Induced by the widespread use of social software in personal contexts, companies wish to profit from its advantages. Owing to limited IT budgets and the need to justify investments in such systems, it is important to assess the benefits of employing social software in the corporate context. In this paper, we propose conceptual models for assessing the success of two specific types of social sof...

Mobile information services, preceded on tablet computers, smartphones or other mobile devices, are a significant source of information for people nowadays. By including context data, a new category of information services has been established. On the application side, a range of innovative services, providing the user with an added-value, could be observed in the previous years, boosted by the...

It is undeniable that SMEs face many management-related problems. These problems are often deeply rooted in the strategic decision making by managers. One of these decisions is associated with the production section. Many of these companies provide production infrastructure at high costs; however, they are unsuccessful in acquiring their market share. In these circumstances, providing a solutio...

The purpose of this paper is to propose a hybrid model which combines locally linear embedding (LLE) algorithm and support vector machines (SVM) to predict the failure of firms based on past financial performance data. By making use of the LLE algorithm to perform dimension reduction for feature extraction, is then utilized as a preprocessor to improve business failure prediction capability by ...

the survival of rural communities depends on appropriate investments and creation of viable and sustainable job opportunities. rural entrepreneurship is a driving engine of job creation and economic growth in rural communities. when we speak of rural business success or longevity, it seems important to determine how rural entrepreneurs define success. for the past decades, profit, growth and in...

We present the findings from a Dutch field study of 30 outsourcing deals totaling to more than 100 million Euro, where both customers and corresponding IT-outsourcing providers participated. The main objective of the study was to examine from a number of well-known factors whether they discriminate between IT-outsourcing success and failure in the early phase of service delivery and to determin...